Latest statistics sees EconStor among the ten most heavily used archives in RePec

Most Economists know, that RePEc publishes rankings on publications, authors and research institutions. Less known is the fact, that RePec also provides statistics on it’s contributing archives and how they perform. These archives can come from university faculties (e.g. for their working papers), from publishers (for their journals) or from repositories (either institutional or subject based). A ranking of the largest archives is provided on the RePEc homepage (see also screenshot on the right).

As a subject repository with a focus on the German Economics community EconStor provides it’s RePEc input services for over 100 institutions, which places as amont the TOP 20 archives with respect to size.

But even more pleasant (and also more important to our customers) is the fact, that papers on EconStor are also heavily used. Looking at the detailed LogEc statistics for all contributing archives in RePEc, we find that EconStor (acronym “zbw”) is at number 10 concerning the use of our archives (number of downloads).

803 new items have been added and the total number of full-text documents was 76707 by the end of May. In addition we have counted 297941 downloads in that month. The Top 5 most downloaded papers were:

1214 new items have been added and the total amount of full-text documents reached 75904 by the end of April. The total number of downloads in April climbed to 305.357. The Top 5 most downloaded papers were:

2108 new items have been included and the total amount of full-text documents reached 74690 by the end of March. The total number of downloads in March climbed to 278135. The Top 5 most downloaded papers were:

With 1576 new items we have increased our total amount of full-text documents up to 72482 by the end of February. The total number of downloads in February climbed to 226147. Our Top 5 most downloaded papers were:

With 2828 new items we have increased our total amount of full-text documents up to 70906 by the end of January. The total number of downloads in January reached 203.259. Our Top 5 most downloaded papers were:

New edition of webometrics ranking now also includes Altmetrics indicators. EconStor ranks at number 17 concerning full-text documents.

The “Ranking Web of Repositories” is a service provided by the Spanish Reseseach Organization CSIC. Besides comparing repositories it also ranks Universities, Business Schools and Hospitals. The repository ranking is published every 6 months, now in it’s 14th edition.

The latest edition, which was published this week, introduced a new element among the relevant criteria for the ranking: The “Altmetrics”-Element (which accounts for 25% of the ranking) is monitoring services like Twitter, Wikipedia and Google+ and looks up, how often repository documents are mentioned in these service.

The new Webometrics repository ranking sees EconStor at number 45 (out of 1750 repositories worldwide) in the overall ranking. When it comes to the number of PDF-Documents within a repository (category “rich files”), EconStor comes out even better at Number 17. Concerning the coverage in Google Scholar, we rank at number 21.

With 464 new items we have increased our total amount of full-text documents up to 68078 by the end of December. Over the year 2013 we have added more than 20000 new titles to EconStor. The total number of downloads in December climbed to 226441. Our Top 5 most downloaded papers were: